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Catamutún is a coal mine and locality in Los Ríos Region, Chile. [1] Catamutún is located 25 km away from the city of La Unión. [1] Coal has been mined in Los Ríos Region since the 1930s and Catamutún begun in 1945 to be exploited by Compañía Carbonífera San Pedro de Catamutún, an enterprise which has since then expanded into limestone mining.
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
The mining stripping equipment consists of the following: [11] A total of 53 dump trucks: 4 Komatsu HD605, 10 Komatsu HD465, 40 Komatsu HD785. In addition there is an unspecified number of CAT 777s. A total of 15 excavators: 2 Komatsu PC1250, 6 Komatsu PC2000, 1 Hitachi EX1900, 1 Hitachi EX1200, 1 Hitachi ZX890, 3 CAT 6015B and 1 CAT 345b.
The mine is more than 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world), has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft), [1] and is one of the largest excavated holes in the world. Open-pit mining began in 1957 and was discontinued in 2001. Since 2009, it has been active as an underground diamond mine. [2]
Automated mineralogy solutions are applied in a variety of fields requiring statistically reliable, quantitative mineralogical information. These include the following sectors: mining; [1] O&G; [2] coal; [3] environmental sciences; [4] forensic geosciences; [5] archaeology; [6] agribusiness; built environment and planetary geology. [7]
Corta Atalaya is the largest open-pit mine in Europe [1] and was at one time the largest in the world. [citation needed] It is located within the city limits of Minas de Riotinto in the province of Huelva, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. [2]
Underground soft-rock mining is a group of underground mining techniques used to extract coal, oil shale, potash, and other minerals or geological materials from sedimentary ("soft") rocks. [1] Because deposits in sedimentary rocks are commonly layered and relatively less hard , the mining methods used differ from those used to mine deposits in ...
Mining Concession C-18 Panasqueira. Minas da Panasqueira or Mina da Panasqueira (English: 'Panasqueira mine') is the generic name for a set of mining operations between Cabeço do Pião (Fundão municipality) and the village of Panasqueira (Covilhã municipality), which has operated in a technically integrated and continuous manner practically since the discovery of ore there.